Quick Facts
Name: Cindy
Languages: English
Languages I could be better at: Mandarin, French, Japanese
Birth country: Brunei
Favourite colour: yellow (I still love blue and all the other colours)
Favourite book: Of Mice and Men
Favourite movie: The English Patient
Favourite foods: Noodles in soup, chips, cheese, tofu, pasta, ice cream, roti canai, anything spicy!
Favourite cuisines: Malaysian, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Indian, Chinese, Korean
Favourite animals: Pandas, Pugs, Pigs
Favourite thing about teaching: interaction with the students
Least Favourite thing about teaching: marking assignments
Collections: nail polish, pug memorabilia, panda images, stamps, cardigans, hockey cards (as a child)
Hobbies and Interests: being with loved ones, trying new restaurants, art and art history, outdoor activities, running and fitness, fashion design, travelling, foreign films, libraries, jewellry making, cryptozoology, dinosaurs, astronomy, anything to do with the Titanic, learning weird and interesting facts, trivia!
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At a young age, I loved the colour blue. It was such a beautiful, creamy, and sweet tasting colour. I had to eat it but I didn’t know where I could find the colour blue to eat. Presented with such a dilemma at the tender age of 3, I decided to draw with the colour blue instead. Since then, my life has gone from wanting to be an astronaut to a paleontologist. I rejected the idea of being an artist at the age of 6 because “artists don’t make money”. Despite my pragmatism, I never gave up my artistic pursuits. I continued to study art throughout my years in high school and in university. After graduating, I felt like I had learned a lot about art and life but did not know how to articulate this to others. Through the medium of art, I was able to convey powerful messages about contemporary and personal issues that I never knew I had the power to do. I wanted to go back to that and teach the future generation of artists to do the same thing. After working with students in a non classroom setting after graduation, I knew that something was lacking. I knew that I wanted to be creative with them….but how? Teaching. Teaching was the answer. So here I am.